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Author : Robert W Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598698862
A togue-in-cheek guide to vocabulary enhancement introduces words to be slipped into everyday conversation, including autodidactic, descant, and disestablishmentarianism.
Author : Robert W Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440591068
"A dictionary of "big and intellectual" words"--
Author : American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780547350189
Find the right words to make a point, seal the deal, or just keep folks listening! Chosen by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, these words can help anyone who wants to be a more compelling communicator—as a worker, consumer, advocate, friend, dinner companion, or even romantic prospect. The book includes a colorful variety of words, including handy words of just one syllable (such as glib) and words derived from the names of famous people (such as Freudian slip and Machiavellian). There are expressions from popular culture (Catch-22) and words that date back to classical civilization (spartan and stoic). Each word is clearly defined and shown in context with quotations from magazines, newspapers, broadcast media, movies, and television. For many words, quotations from distinguished authors and speakers are also given and word histories are explained. 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart provides an enjoyable way to communicate more effectively, distinctively, and articulately.
Author : Peter Archer,Linda Archer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440541070
Dazzle with your command of belle-lettres! Like a true sophisticate, you'd like to toss out casual bon mots to enliven your conversation. You'd like to float through cocktail parties offering your guests crudités and hors d'oeuvres, toasting to the prevailing Weltgeist and speculating on who's having an affaire de coeur. But first you need to know what those words mean. Here's a guide to declaiming like an intellectual in a foreign language. More than 500 of the most commonly used foreign words and phrases that enhance our language and make us sound sophisticated have been translated into English, along with a pronunciation guide and a sample sentence showing you how to use them. In addition, you'll find quotations in other languages, which will impress everyone with your erudition and experiencia del mundo. All this together with a plethora of minutae, spicing the entries with an exquisite mélange of information that heightens their je ne sais quoi. So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases. Remember, Experientia docet.
Author : David Olsen,Michelle Bevilacqua,Justin Cord Hayes
Publisher : Adams Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1605501395
Do you know what "quatrefoil" and "impolitic" mean? What about "halcyon" or "narcolepsy"? This book is a handy, easy-to-read reference guide to the proper parlance for any situation. In this book you will find: Words You Absolutely Should Know (covert, exonerate, perimeter); Words You Should Know But Probably Don't (dour, incendiary, scintilla); Words Most People Don't Know (schlimazel, thaumaturgy, epergne); Words You Should Know to Sound Overeducated (ad infinitum, nugatory, garrulity); Words You Probably Shouldn't Know (priapic, damnatory, labia majora); and more. Whether writing an essay, studying for a test, or trying to impress friends, family, and fellow cocktail party guests with their prolixity, you will achieve magniloquence, ebullience, and flights of rhetorical brilliance.
Author : Mignon Fogarty
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781429951296
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one smart word at a time—with Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart. Are you often stumped for the perfect way to say or write something? Do you find yourself using the same words over and over? Grammar Girl to the rescue! This handy reference guide contains 101 words that will enhance your writing, adding nuance, subtlety, and insight. Using these words in speeches, you'll sound confident and articulate—a skill that will benefit you for years to come. Full of clear, straightforward definitions and fun quotations from historic luminaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Charlotte Bronte as well as contemporary notables such as Dave Eggers and Rowan Atkinson, this highly useable guidebook gives you the ability to speak and write eloquently at any occasion, setting you up for a lifetime of success.
Author : Robert W. Bly
Publisher : Fall River Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Vocabulary
ISBN : 1435165470
Author : Hubert van den Bergh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408125090
A fun and informative guide to some of the more obscure, curious and tricky words in the English language.
Author : Mjf Books
Publisher : M J F Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1567313647
Author : Robert Sungenis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781939856814
Bob's Dictionary of Big Words (BDBW) is a new concept in dictionaries. Rather than carrying around bulky dictionaries that often contain pages of definitions for simple words that everyone already knows, BDBW uses only bigger words that most people either don't know or have heard many times but don't remember the definition. BDBW limits its words to 6000 on an easy to manage 6 x 9 frame. It uses only the most practical and interesting words that will impress not only yourself but those to whom you communicate. BDBW gives the Latin, Greek or other derivation of the word for easier memorization of the definition. Accents are made with an underline on the correct syllable. Students and professionals will find BDBW very useful, but it is designed for anyone who wants to rise to the next level of English communication and conversation. There is nothing like it on the market.
Author : Caroline Taggart
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781782432982
Ever wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You Should Know has you covered. Words are beautiful and versatile things, but when used incorrectly they can lose a lot in transition, and the more complex the word, the more misused it can become. And as words eternally evolve in their everyday use, they can begin to be interpreted as something other than their original meaning. 500 Words You Should Know will inspire the reader to use uncommon words in their correct context, to utilize the English language to its full potential, and to test themselves on the words they think they already know.
Author : Gabriel Wyner
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780385348119
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
Author : David Olsen
Publisher : Adams Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1558500189
Lots of people need a quick and authoritative way to identify and define the most troublesome common words. The usual approach- stalling for time until you can grasp the context of what the person has just said-has its limits. If only there were a list, not of every word (after all, reading dictionaries is no one's idea of fun) but of the right words, the ones that are used frequently but don't quite register when you come across them. The Words You Should Know features straightforward, succinct definitions and sentence examples of over 1200 tough-but-common words. It's the kind of book that can get you out of a jam, improve your performance at school, and help advance your career. And that's no hyperbole, rigmarole, or embellishment.
Author : Martin Manser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199560059
This A-Z provides 1001 words you need to know to make your writing and speaking effective, convincing, and expressive. With clear guidance on choosing the right word, this book is essential for anyone wanting to achieve greater success in written and spoken tasks including essays, interviews, CVs and application letters, reports, and more.
Author : Mignon Fogarty
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1429940573
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. After realizing her fans were asking the same questions over and over, Mignon decided to focus her attention on those words that continuously confound the masses. In Grammar Girl's 101 Misused Words You'll Never Confuse Again, you'll learn: - When you should use affect and when effect is right- Whether you should you say purposely or purposefully- The difference between hilarious and hystericalPacked with clear explanations, fun quotations showing the word used in context, and the quick and dirty memory tricks Mignon is known for, this friendly reference guide ends the confusion once and for all and helps you speak and write with confidence.